Rock star Dave Navarro is directing porn, as was inevitable considering his proximity to this world over the past few years. Dave Navarro: Broken was shot this summer for Teravision and features Sasha Grey, Jenna Haze, Victoria Sin, Audrey Bitoni, Kayla Page, Lisa Daniels, Tommy Gunn, Marco Banderas, Mark Davis, and Spyder Jonez (but not [...]

Whenever I go to any kind of convention, the rhythmic motions of my neck, like the waters of Solaris, conspire to turn my ID necklace around, so all anyone sees is the name of whatever company sponsored the costly lamination/lanyard process. On a deeper level, it raises questions of who we really are. In the [...]

Spermatozoa appear to be traveling away from the Statue of Liberty, as if to repopulate the old country, in XBiz’ new marketing campaign. What do the sperm know that we don’t? Previously: XBiz relaunchesSee also: XBiz

Because my car has better air conditioning than my house, and because a four-hour drive in a car with leg room is better than three hours waiting for and flying in a plane that has none, I will be driving to Las Vegas next week for the XBiz Summer Forum. Even though the Hard Rock [...]

As you well know, I should be the last person consulted about adult website design (because a world in which someone would ask me about website design means one in which Lurk Ford, Rock and Roll Gene Ross, Mike South, Tod Hunter, and everyone on MySpace are already dead) but I feel XBiz is mixing [...]

Because no one likes the old and used, both of the adult business’ trade publications have spent the Spring rolling their new websites to the launchpad. AVN has been tinkering with its design for at least six months, and XBiz is reportedly planning a relaunch within the next few weeks. Both sites currently look similar; [...]

The XBiz Hollywood Forum was a success for the content it squeezed into two brief days of parties, seminars, and mingling. Webmasters spend double-digit hours in front of their computers each day, and even when they drive their car a block to the local Quizno’s, they still carry a pager to be alerted if a [...]

I was sitting in this seminar about affiliate programs and the only person to talk about about bodily fluids, the liquid foundation of this businesss, was Karl Edwards, the representative of the gay affiliate program YouKnowJack. How to dream up a successful affiliate program? the panel was asked. “You just need to sit down with [...]

I stood on the lobby balcony of the Roosevelt Hotel and asked the following question: “Who in this room will benefit from the creation of a .xxx domain?” Silence. “I know I will,” I continued. “I’m going to make a billion dollars.” This loosened people up a little. There’s nothing that inspires webmasters more than [...]